Vatnajökull National Park boundaries
Vatnajökull National Park was founded on June 7th 2008, although the act on Vatnajökull National Park was entered into force on May 1st 2007. It is the largest national park in Iceland by far, 14,967 km2. Vatnajökull National Park was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on July 5th 2019.
The boundary of Vatnajökull National Park, after its latest expansion on September 22nd 2021. The boundary is drawn in accordance to regulation on Vatnajökull National Park, No 300/2020, with later amendments.
Disclaimer: If there is a difference between the data and the regulation text, then the regulation text applies.
The data also includes all previous boundaries of the national park as well as current boundaries of operating areas.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2021-09-22
- Citation identifier
- 41D3314D-55AF-4FE3-9A9F-B9CB18AC5CAA
- Cited responsible party
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Vatnajökull National Park
Owner
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Vatnajökull National Park
Owner
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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national park
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law
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reglugerð
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Open data
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NSDI
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UNESCO
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World Heritage
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no restrictions, open access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
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- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/5325
- Topology level
- Geometry only
- Geometric object type
- Composite
- Geometric object count
- 58034
- Geometric object type
- Composite
- Geometric object count
- 68
- Distribution format
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Name Version GeoPackage
1
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Vatnajökull National Park
Resource provider
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Name Version GeoPackage
1
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://kort.lmi.is/ Geoportal
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.althingi.is/lagas/153a/2007060.html Law about Vantajökulsþjóðgarður
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.vatnajokulsthjodgardur.is/ Vatnajökull National Park Webside
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities
https://gis.lmi.is/geoserver/wms?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS vjp:vatnajokulsthjodgardur
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities
https://gis.lmi.is/geoserver/wms?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS vjp:rekstrarsvaedi
OGC:WFS-2.0.0-http-get-capabilities
https://gis.lmi.is/geoserver/wfs?request=GetCapabilities&service=WFS vjp:rekstrarsvaedi
OGC:WFS-2.0.0-http-get-capabilities
https://gis.lmi.is/geoserver/wfs?request=GetCapabilities&service=WFS vjp:vatnajokulsthjodgardur
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.althingi.is/lagas/153a/2007060.html Law about Vantajökulsþjóðgarður
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/eftir-raduneytum/umhverfisraduneyti/nr/21889 Regulation of the national park.
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://unesco.is/unesco-a-islandi/ unesco.is
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1604 Unesco Webside - about Thingvellir
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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Not avilable in english. Please contact Vatnajökull National Park for further information.
Metadata
- File identifier
- d604ddab-e836-45b5-a099-ceb93f335fcf XML
- Metadata language
- ice
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- UTF8
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-01-15T14:48:17
- Metadata standard name
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INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules
- Metadata standard version
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Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119 (Version 1.2)
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Vatnajökull National Park
Point of contact
- Dataset URI
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41D3314D-55AF-4FE3-9A9F-B9CB18AC5CAA
- Other language
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Language Character encoding English UTF8 Icelandic UTF8
Overviews
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